Qualitative differences in knowledge structure are associated with diagnostic performance in medical students

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 677-684

  Coderre, Sylvain ^a,b   Jenkins, Deirdre ^b   Mclaughlin, Kevin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Knowledge structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; THINKING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 70449120469     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-008-9149-8     Document Type: Article

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